If you’re an average American, your day might go something like this: An alarm on your phone, or clock, or both, wakes you up; you immediately get on your smart phone or your laptop to check your email and check in on your social networks; you then go into the kitchen and flip on the […]
Tag Archives: mindfulness meditation
Veterans Suffering from Post Traumatic Headaches after TBI
Categories: Meditation and Military, Pain Management
Many of our brave men and women are secretly suffering from chronic headaches that occur after receiving a devastating injury to the head. They are called post traumatic headaches and they are a side effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI). More than 30% of TBI victims report ongoing headaches that continue to worsen after their […]
National Health Services Acknowledges Mindfulness Meditation as a Treatment for Depression
Categories: Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
One of the topics we’ve discussed many times on this blog is how mindfulness meditation can help with depression. It’s not uncommon for people to be skeptical of this claim. Drugs, along with cognitive therapy, have been the standard methods for treating depression going back as far as the 1960’s, and when a person seeks […]
PTSD and Mindfulness Meditation: New Research Supports its Effectiveness
Categories: Blog, Meditation and Military
PTSD — post traumatic stress disorder — is a topic that gets discussed quite a lot on this site because it is such a prevalent problem and devastating disorder. It is estimated that of the more than 2 million soldiers who have served in Iraq, thousands of them are likely to be suffering from PTSD. PTSD has […]
Using Meditation to Soften the Pain of Polytrauma
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Meditation and Military
Polytrauma, as the name suggests, is when an individual sustains multiple traumatic injuries, including: hearing loss, loss of limbs, blindness, broken bones, burns… Polytrauma is common among soldiers and those serving our country in the armed forces. It is often the result of injuries from an improvised explosive device or a rocket-propelled grenade. The pain that comes […]
Resiliency Training (Part 2): The Resilient Mind vs. the Fragile Mind
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Last week we talked about compassion fatigue – secondary traumatic stress disorder – and touched briefly on how it plays into mental resiliency. This week we are going to talk all about resilience, and the difference between people with resilient minds – those who bounce back from emotional adversity quickly – and people with fragile […]
Meditation Tips for Beginners
Categories: Meditation Tips
Meditation is a powerful and practical tool for living your life in more purposeful and healthy ways. It is also easy to get started and doesn’t require any special equipment other than your mind and a little patience. To start with, make sure you’re not going to be disturbed while meditating. You don’t need to […]
How Meditation Can Help Your Relationship
Categories: Meditation and Emotions
Relationships aren’t easy. In fact, most of them are down right hard. Our romantic relationships are often the central narratives of our lives, more important and long lasting than our careers, our hobbies and even parenthood (the kids are going to leave the house sometime, right?) Maintaining these life long bonds can often be tough […]
Meditation and Cancer
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Sleep, Pain Management
The “C” word is enough to make your heart skip a beat. Cancer. No one wants it. Some people get it and chances are, you will know someone who has had it. More than 12 million new cancer cases were recorded worldwide in 2008, and the number continues to grow. By the year 2030, it […]
Meditation Lengthens Life Expectancy
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
The quest for eternal life and the fountain of youth is an age old myth, but imagine enjoying your life — family, friends, food, the outdoors — longer. Not living forever, but doing something that could actually help you live longer and happier? Good news, you can. Mindfulness meditation can lengthen your life expectancy, according […]